On April 21, before the reception at the Residence of His Excellency Bruno van der Pluijm, Belgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, the Foundation's Alumni Network organised a visit to the Egyptian galleries of the British Museum. We had the pleasure to be guided by Amélie Deblauwe, a Wiener-Anspach [...]
On 21 April 2023 we had the pleasure to gather in London several of our UK-based alumni and friends as well as many Fellows currently in Oxbridge. The reception took place in the beautiful setting of the residence of the Belgian Ambassador, His Excellency Bruno van der Pluijm. We [...]
Arild Stenberg, PhD in Music Psychology (University of Cambridge), was a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 2020 to 2022. He has now returned to the University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Music and is currently working on the [...]
On March 30, 2023 Chris Bickerton, Professor in Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge and holder of the 2022-2023 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, gave a public lecture entitled "The long 1989" at the Université libre de Bruxelles. The video of the lecture is now available on [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is pleased to present its Activity Report for 2022, a year that marked the long-awaited return of in-person activities: the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, held by Professor Paul Betts (University of Oxford), as well as the visit to the International Carnival and Mask Museum, organised by [...]
We are delighted to share a few pictures of the Philippe Wiener Lecture on "Prismatic translation" delivered by Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford) at the Université libre de Bruxelles on March 7. We warmly thank the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication for their welcome, the students who [...]
On 21 February 2023 the Maison française d'Oxford hosted a workshop on the ethical design for AI in medicine, co-organised by our Doctoral Fellow Aurelia Sauerbrei. “Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly but steadily being introduced in medical and healthcare settings. From basic research to applied systems already deployed in [...]
Edward Lee-Six, PhD in French and English Literature (University of Cambridge), is currently a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow at ULB, where he is conducting research on “Emile Verhaeren at the cross-roads of Belgian symbolism and English romanticism". This week, he is co-organising two book launches with the French publisher Les [...]
After a long pause, the Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce that its Philippe Wiener Lectures will resume on Tuesday 7 March at the Université libre de Bruxelles, with a conference by Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at the University of Oxford). Professor Reynolds, who will [...]
The Wiener-Anspach Foundation is delighted to announce that the holder of the 2022-2023 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair is Chris Bickerton (Professor in Modern European Politics at the University of Cambridge and Official Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge). Initially scheduled for 2020/2021, this chair had to be postponed due [...]
